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Show THE SALT Magazine Section SL, AK E Magazine Section M EKAL!U-MEPUBLiCA- N Sunday, Dec. 19, 1915 1M if fflFra c 2 5 A X 4H "' 3k "v ? A v. y rOV.V Mi V tgr 4 ill -' J I ?" . ..--(- r Si 1 tor-- f :i 'X.. v - '-i- 9 J'-- 1 y if f';U bS ' .' " ' 4 "1 ' ; It 1 . T vmv . v, v.. L 5 A " ' ? . 0 .1 nf7 C "1 - X; vv .i..,-,- . -- .:.v. v. gsaNJf i?. - 4 ni I Ml t! THE HOLY. ITIQHT from the. Pointing Ml if M 'turn m J iby Feuerstcin 1 . Sl fl 4 1 II 11 !'f'', 1. K f M I II wider than any ritual. Its magic has influenced the world in a degree more profound and than that of any other recurring incident marked by the history of mankind. Its sentiment has, indeed. overflowed all boundaries, both of sect and of social condition. Its high, clear note of cheer and charity has appealed in an un- bounded degree wherever human Ideals have had sway. ., Pessimism halts at its portal. The creed of kindness adjusts itself to all conditions and all places. It seems to be a good working creed, despite the unattractive phases of perfunctory giving and taking. ' It is a cheerful creed. It strews lifo with gayety and color. It is a culmination to sentiments of fair play, to active sympathy, to the impulse. Christmas has no climate.- - It glows where life is green and where it is white. In city and in country, in the hills and on the desert, among the pines and among the palms it finds a voice. It Is holy day and holiday. It drapes the altar and the hearth. It has many American versions, and many races add.thelr varying symbols to its tenderness and to Its animation. Above all, the call of Christmas is "Peace on Earth." In the present grievous crisis of the world there is significance in this call beyond that of any crisis mankind ever before was called to read. That war has darkened Christmas for so much of the world may well seem, at the moment, the crushing con- demnatlon of all such conflicts. Yet it will remain true that the Tull beauty of the day and the time is duo those who may find that beauty. Children of every land seize it for their own. And, 'except ye become as bne of these' life loses Its saving lustre. far-reachi- Iff. 9C5J do-It-no- a xj ; 5 y -- 1 y - v. 0h 7 m 7. ng " 0 -- ... 7 ''I'll w mil. I) C7 rKSis HE, festival 'called Christmas has come to have a creed 'l m 71f I Ifr mi ( H 111Ifl t 11s I . V : 71. J7 1 3- - Jin i mM iV'tfJ- - - k ' iff is 1 r mm |